Hillary “I’m friends with Henry Kissinger” Clinton is utterly divorced from reality.
Hillary “I only started supporting gay marriage when it started polling well in 2012 but still got the endorsement from an organization one of my campaign team folks was head of” Clinton’s seemingly unlimited hubris is one of the primary reasons this country now has the precursor Supreme Court to Handmaid’s Tale and 4 years of Trump that helped indirectly lead to many of the preventable deaths of the 1,000,000 people who died from COVID.
Literally any other Democrat with less baggage than her could’ve beaten Trump… but the goddamn neo-liberals who got rich during Bill Clinton’s era deregulating shit and passing labor-decimating shit like NAFTA were salivating at another chance for trying to coronate her and boosted the ever loving shit out of her due to their pants-shitting fear of a slightly more left-leaning president being elected into office.
…And then Hillary “I was a Goldwater girl” Clinton’s campaign actively Pied-Piper’d Trump because they were convinced he would be the easiest to beat (he would have been were it anyone but her) and also knew that she would lose to almost any other Republican nominee.
Hillary “I think I should maybe run again in 2028” Clinton can “Pokémon go…” fuck herself.
If she ever had any goddamn sense, she would have fucked off after losing to Obama. Right then she should just have fucked back off to Arkansas and lived out the rest of her life being a shitty fucking grandma and would have stopped actively making the world worse through her stubborn need to be in the public eye. But I guess if she did that, she wouldn’t be Hillary “I sat on the board at WalMart for years and years and helped to gut small businesses all across the American countryside” Clinton.
The leader of France’s Republicans party has said he would be open to an alliance with Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally in snap French elections. Such an alliance would break a decades-old taboo....
Is it that the neoliberal / capitalist class that has effectively captured the reins of not only the right, but also any major supposedly “left” leaning parties in order to shore up all possible avenues wherein their obscene wealth could be otherwise curtailed and used to cover the cost of increasingly worsened privatized (but previously robust in at least European cases) public services and goods - of which the loss of has ripened an increasingly angry and socioeconomically desperate and uneducated populace for being fooled into believing their plight caused by said neoliberal/capitalists was instead due to marginalized scapegoats offered by demagogue faux populists (aka Fascists)?
…Or are you inferring some dumb racist shit?
Sorry if I’m coming off as hostile with that bit, but when I hear someone start to say something about something being “not what intellectuals want to hear,” that’s kind of a red flag for me… since I defer by default to educated experts and “intellectuals” when it comes to anything I’m not already well-informed on…
For example, I’m a goofball who thinks asking a “non-intellectual” when it comes to accounting at least… like say my plumber for financial advice… or maybe a “non-intellectual in the subject of mechanical engineering” with my doctor - for how to fix my car up… would usually be a pretty fucking stupid thing to do… but I know some people who think a dipshit reality show fail-son cheating blowhard who somehow bankrupted a casino should be in charge of who we could ostensibly drop nukes on, so what do I know? 🤷♂️
Always more attempts to grab the tiniest sliver from an almost non-existent Venn Diagram crossover. Never reaching for the literal fifty or so million apathetic voters who would otherwise support Biden but feel like he’s not ever going to be doing enough to motivate them to show up.
There is a “left,” but it fights so hard and loses so much all the time still - not due to their own failures but because the deck is so stacked against them, and it’s so small they might as well not be present (basically Sanders, AOC, and a couple of others).
Ok, if you don’t consider Bernie or AOC the closest thing to “the left” we have here in the U.S., you sound like an absolute goofball… and I just read your username so yeah definitely confirms it.
For anyone here unfamiliar with the name by the way, Jimmy Dore used to be a commentator on a once more genuinely left but now more waffling independent news org called “The Young Turks” - who were the origin point for several large genuine left-leaning online personalities like Hassan Piker and Emma Vigland.
Jimmy Dore left at some point just like supposed leftist Dave Rubin - probably for similar reasons related to making a lot more money than is reasonably possible for most small left-leaning content making news orgs, considering the rich don’t usually like to provide them a lot of funding compared to the many other more friendly type “nEwS” outlets like Tim Pool, Charlie Kirk, etc… so now Dore is - at best - a useful idiot or at worst an obvious grifter.
Anyway that’s all I needed to know about the above commenter (and apparently the OP wow 😄 should have figured) to know they actually do deserve any downvotes they seemed to be getting in response to my previous comment.
Biden and most Dems suck, but Trump sucks more.
Until we get more allies in Congress, hold your nose and vote for neolibs (1980s Republicans calling themselves Democrats) over fascists (Nazis calling themselves Republicans) or we are genuinely fucked.
Trump deserves to never have been able to hold office in the first place, let alone be allowed to run again, but unfortunately, due to it being Literal Authoritarian playbook 101 shit, we kinda have to have it as a law.
Of course, that’s presuming someone like Trump wouldn’t do that shit to his opponent even if someone told him he legally couldn’t.
Agreed with you on Sanders - he is an incredibly rare occurrence in politics. He is someone who was :
Not ever rich so he understands from a very real perspective the economic stratification that many of those in higher government offices ignore or are oblivious to.
Didn’t seek politics as a means to enrich himself (unlike Sinema for example)
The closest other analogs I can think of are a few members of the “squad…” but even a good number of them come from some sort of modest means… although - again - that garbage pile Sinema shows us that’s no guarantee when it comes to class solidarity… :(
Beto on the other hand - who I actually met in person once and shook hands with - although he is a thousand times better than Cruz or Abbott - is basically backed by his very well-to-do in-laws and more of the “New Democrats” coalition - aka Obama / Buttigieg / thinly-veiled neoliberal “look how cool I am but don’t check my voting record too closely” group of pretend-progressives backed by a lot of capital trying to appeal to the folks who like the politics of Sanders, AOC, Warren, etc.
Although Beto’s better than some of the others in my opinion, his voting record shows he’d be another Obama policy-wise so no public healthcare probably, no ending massive private-kick-back driven “Military Industrial Complex” contracts, probably not great on foreign policy, and I wouldn’t expect him to crack down on billionaire tax evasionists.
Am I the only one who thinks any Republican insisting they’re “<insert bullshit here> instead of <worse shit the Rs keep doing>” is just lying?
Like Romney and Liz Cheney and the rest of the “rEaSoNaBlE” Republicans - none of what they say matters because in the end (unlike say pieces of shit also like Joe Manchin or Sinema who actually help the Rs out all the time too) the Romneys and Cheneys still tow the party line when voting on those same issues they supposedly have opposite spoken views on happens to come up in a committee or bill.
How about instead of getting excited about someone who may take moderate voters away from democrats in the general, we instead shit on all the Rs as they deserve it and should be ashamed of running as - regardless of how supposedly “reasonable” their latest spoken views supposedly are?
Umm, how about we focus on actually getting a strong game industry for people working directly in it first… 😄 I mean… have people seen the layoffs just in the past two years within the game industry?
I agree we need both, but it just feels a little lower priority… like if someone was giving a speech in a room filled with a bunch of starving children and said speaker was preaching about how we needed to “protect animal rights.”
Like they’re not wrong, I guess, but it would seem kind of strange to focus on the welfare of cattle when there was obviously a much more dire situation of “kids starving in the room they’re in” that maybe should be the initial target of focus before someone talks about the ethics of free range vs organic food production.
I’m guessing they went back to the drawing board several times - probably because they felt their sequel wasn’t really as evolved or as fun as what they had hoped it would be, so they shifted I’m guessing from their overhead view to the behind the player 3rd person style game we know now at some point after churning at it for a couple years at least…
Like you know that Doom 2016 was the 3rd complete from scratch redo from what they originally started working on after Doom 3, right?
This sort of thing sometimes happens in creative projects; like when you hear a movie took like 7 years to make, it’s not necessarily that they literally shot scenes every week for the same film that whole time. It’s that the project was shelved, or they changed directors, or the studio lost interest for a while or they got a new script or something.
Here’s a video showing everything iD worked on related to what was referred to as “DOOM 4” from like 2007 to 2013 before scrapping a huge part of it and coming out with the critically acclaimed 2016 version (which was only shown starting around 2015 at QuakeCon and E3).
Note that not EVERYTHING was scrapped, as you can see things like the super-shotgun model are close to the final release - as well as what you can tell were early slower iterations of the execution-style animations the game became famous for doing, but a lot of what is shown in that trailer was never to be seen again outside of these old videos people have attempted to archive.
Pretending that Biden / Democrats don’t have any power to even attempt to address this in even the most mild way is plain stupid.
And please don’t reply with a “you think Biden has the power unilaterally force them to lower their prices?!”
No, I don’t.
But what I DO think is that power of the bully pulpit of the highest office in the land allows the president to openly target and vilify (righteously I might add) companies and even individual CEOs that are doing things like this and turn the public ire against them in a focused manner.
Additionally, Democrats can do things in a Machiavellian manner that would make life a fucking nightmare for some of these people. Just get the IRS to go after some of these CEOs. Investigate them for this price gouging that we know that they’re doing. Suspend their business licenses.
Have the FDA tell them they’re not authorized to sell milk anymore or some shit I don’t fucking care.
Don’t tell me the Supreme Court’s gonna overturn it because I don’t care. In the meantime that they hadn’t overturned it we get wins and even if the Supreme Court does overturn it it’s more ammunition to point and say “look at what they’re taking away from us! We’re trying to fix things, and these Republicans in office keep undoing what would help make your lives better!”
Instead, they do nothing and say “well we couldn’t do that even if we wanted to because the Republicans would stop us” and then when you get angry and complain they say “oh well what do you want Trump to be in office instead?!”
This fucking handwaving shit has got to stop or Trump is going to fucking win again. Jesus Christ. Fucking forgive medical debt. Fucking forgive student loans. Just do some sweeping shit. I don’t care if everyone’s going to complain about the legality of it. Push the limits of your power. Trump did it and got away with it and it was evil shit like the Muslim travel ban.
AT LEAST ATTEMPT TO DO SOME GOOD WITH THE POWER YOU HAVE TO SHOW US THAT YOU ARE TRYING!
Treasury secretary came out against the proposed global levy, which proponents say would stop the rich from shifting wealth into countries where they can avoid paying the tax
Hey neolibs, now are we allowed to say how things like this help give credence to the often-cited but obviously not completely accurate “both parties are sometimes the same” statement?
Or am I going to get a billion downvotes, and someone replying to me with an amazing list of accomplishments that breaks down for me how Biden reduced the prices of not only ketchup BUT ALSO mustard packets (although technically it’s starting in the calendar year of 2025 assuming Congress passes his new bill via a one time partial mail in rebate for those who qualify via income cap rated at 4.312x the current rate of poverty based off your income tax return average from 2020-2023)?
They also have some of the longest tenured pros of game design and programming in the industry in its entirety… something sadly far more rare outside of Nintendo… but especially Japan.
Shigeru Miyamoto, for example, has been designing at Nintendo for literally 4+ decades at this point.
Turns out you can master a craft after doing it for a majority of your adult life.
But - in the US at least - the executives at publicly traded game companies would rather shut down literal smash hit dev studios like the guys who made Hi Fi Rush than cultivate a few master class devs of their own over a few decades…
I don’t think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I’m letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I...
The real problem is how basically game dev is an untenable long-term career from a AAA standpoint… or at least it is outside of Japan.
Almost every major dev is not being run by anyone with more than 10-ish years of dev experience.
Why? Because studios shut down and fire everyone, or they get bought… and fire everyone… or the grizzled vets get burnt out, or find out that work-life balance shifts when they get old enough to want to start a family, or discover (like I did) that general software pays better, has less turnover, and doesn’t shut down as often.
Look at all the major players in the FPS game for example from the past 15 years… The guys who made Perfect Dark, the original GoldenEye, Killer Instinct, Banjo Kazooie, and Conker’s Bad Fur Day? Mostly not in the industry anymore or struggling while working on small indie projects. Some of the companies still exist, but the guys who’d be in their 60s with 30 years of game dev and design mastery under their belts? Gone.
Cliff Blezinski isn’t working on games anymore. John Carmack isn’t at id. Half of Bungie’s OG staff has moved on to other stuff or switched to 343 or some other smaller studio.
I said “outside of Japan” earlier btw because meanwhile Shigeru Miyamoto is still at Nintendo. Dude’s an absolute elder god of game design, and all he’s been doing is working on them for more than 4 decades at this point.
Kojima’s been making games since the 80s, so has most of the folks at Capcom, and the From Software guys have been doing the same thing for 15+ years at this point.
And then there’s the rare tiny studio or re-org of a once awesome team like Respawn after all the Activision / Call of Duty stuff or indie effort like the guy behind Stardew Valley… but other than those handful of exceptions, there’s no one but 20-something recent grads that pad out the teams at these giant game companies like Ubisoft, Activision, EA, etc. Even Blizzard is a pale shadow of what it once was. And Valve doesn’t really make games anymore b/c they don’t have to…
They aren’t making great games - but NOT because they’re “stupid…” they’re making bad games… because they just started… and all the old farts who they should be apprenticing under like you do with ANY other respected artisan type career are gone.
And every year some $10 million / year bonus paid suit shuts down an Ensemble Studios, or a Telltale Games, or fires half of the team at Square Enix b/c the new Tomb Raider 6-year project didn’t make a bajillion dollars after some exec decided that should be their target since “Clash Royale” only took 1 year to pump out and just basically prints piles of money.
Yeah I’m going to disagree. The community manager got fired for standing up on behalf of the players.
I don’t know what else people expect Arrowhead to do realistically to “make this right,” but that community manager guy had always dreamed of working for Arrowhead and lost his dream job by NOT acting like a corporate shill when it came to choosing the players or his bosses.
SONY was in the wrong here. Please let’s stop being so harsh to the guys killing their careers by saying to the people like the community manager who lost his job (by doing the right thing no less) that they “should’ve done more.”
Direct your ire to whatever Sony executive was pushing for this. Please just let Arrowhead devs continue to polish this game that most of us are really enjoying otherwise.
I was really fortunate, as I got to work with an incredibly talented pool of guys and gals who’d worked on games for decades. They were once basically a third of the legendary game studio “Ensemble Studios” - aka the guys who made Age of Empires.
When they were shutdown, all of them split in to basically 3 different new companies from the ashes :
Robot Entertainment
Bonfire
New Toy
From those 3 companies we got things like “Orcs Must Die” as well as “Words With Friends.”
Bonfire and New Toy eventually got bought by Zynga - and eventually were merged into a single studio in the Dallas area.
I was there for a couple of years. Was my first real game job after a couple of smaller gigs, including some contract work and a few months beforehand at a very small studio. Yes, it was Zynga, but I worked with guys who’d been making games like Age of Mythology since the 90s and they were MASTERS and were actually making stuff that was pretty fun to play - considering it was “Facebook” game work.
Then, a new CEO was hired at Zynga… A guy who’d been at Microsoft during their “Project NATAL” days where the Xbox One had been all about TV and SPORTS… rather than video games…
This CEO was Don Mattrick.
I remember when we’d be having lunch in the cafeteria, they’d often do things like play E3 stage presentations on the big projector… and a lot of the older guys would just boo and get up and walk out when Don Mattrick was on stage during his Microsoft Xbox tenure.
I never had put it together why they hated him so much until I realized who had shut down Ensemble. It was Don Mattrick.
And in 2012 when Mattrick became CEO of Zynga, one of the first things he did was start shutting down satellite studios.
One of those studios was the one I was at.
Now, I was of course upset, but I landed on my feet and am okay… but do you know what that means for those guys in their mid to late 50s that I worked with originally from Ensemble?
It means they had the studio they worked for… shut down TWICE… by the same guy at 2 different companies in a row.
Second - Helldivers ain’t Flappy Bird. Making an online multiplayer game that needs the ability to do reliable matchmaking across multiple platforms with hundreds of thousands of players out there needs MASSIVE network and infrastructure support…
So you may say “don’t take money from the mob,” but this is more a situation of where if they HADN’T taken Sony’s support, they likely wouldn’t have been able to have the resources to have done all that themselves which could have made the difference between their great success and failure.
Remember that the first helldivers game was also a Sony published title where everything worked out fine for everyone then… but mostly because it wasn’t near as big a success story and making headlines but was instead a far more niche title lost mostly in the noise of smaller dev Sony titles.
I’m sure arrowhead has learned its lesson now and it will likely able probably to flex its muscles in the future thanks to its success financially - as I’m sure lots of publishers will be now coming at them with much more lucrative and favorable contract deals going forward, but they probably would not have been able to do what they wanted to do at the scale that they have been able to had Sony not been there to help provide that initial capital and infrastructure support.
This is Sony’s fault fully. The guys at Arrowhead are just wanting to have the means to make good games. They needed the resources to launch successfully and pretending it would have been feasible otherwise without said resources is sadly… naive.
This is like saying to any sort of person involved in commercial agriculture “don’t buy a John Deere tractor if you don’t like their draconic business practices.”
Like… there’s not really many other choices if you want to make a game that can do simultaneous cross-platform networked multiplayer and want to be able to launch on any console.
I mean, unless you want them making something that has massive difficulty coming to console… like maybe Lethal Company is the only recent example I can think of that’s a small non-major publisher-backed title that has networked 4-player multiplayer… and even then i’m not sure what sort of challenges that dev had when trying to implement any sort of netcode for gameplay.
Not defending Sony, but I don’t know if you’ve ever tried to make a game that can have hundreds of thousands of players playing multiplayer matches simultaneously all over the world, but it needs a lot of infrastructure, and network support and other expensive hard to do stuff that you can’t just shit out like it’s Flappy Bird.
The problem is is they probably needed capital and support to get it off the runway, and Sony attached strings to the capital and support they gave them.
Now that it’s a hit, Sony is trying to flex its legal power via said strings - I’m guessing - and probably have all but threatened this relatively small dev with pulling the rug or taking them to court if they don’t follow orders.
TL;DR - Making games is expensive. Sony probably offered the small dev with limited resources a Faustian bargain and now the Devil is calling for his dues. They probably never had a choice.
They still could have it on rails, just use magnets to secure rather than a latch that can get stuck or broken as easily. I would worry more that magnets = no Hall effect joysticks.
Any time I hear this “calls on” bullshit I see a useless politician saying weakly “come on, guys… stop it.”
Instead of a hard-fisted “fix this or I will use executive power to make you do so directly and in such a way that I do not attempt to preserve any position the ownership class would want me to consider.”
Fucking DO something. I don’t care if it gets overturned or Republicans whine. The people will LOVE you for it you feckless old farts.
To most of us, this is probably just a summary of events over the past year or so. But, it’s good to know that this sort of news is reaching non-gaming channels.
No, the people who deserved it are the ones at the top with garages full of supercars and fleets of private yachts. The Bobby Koticks, the Don Mattricks, etc.
The ones who I guarantee you are NOT suffering or losing their livelihoods.
The tens of thousands of devs who got into making video games because of their deep love of them… devs who have worked countless hours and crunched over the holidays while missing out on sleep, family events and more all just because management won’t plan, can’t stop chasing trends and pivoting the project, and because they fired 10% of the team last quarter to boost the share price by $0.02.
The devs didn’t deserve any of that.
They don’t deserve to lose their jobs right after some game ships and it turns out no one wants to pay $70 plus micro transactions shoved in their faces every other round between matches.
AAA gaming is broken and many of my peers from that industry seem to be in a bad spot now at no fault of their own… but their boss’s boss’s bosses who keep steering the ship into rocks are the ones you should be throwing rotten produce at.
Car seat adjustment, above seat vehicle interior lights, steering wheel adjustment, door handles, door locks, main rear view mirror, climate controls for vents and seats, car starting, and trunk and seat releases should all have controls that can be operated either directly or with physical buttons.
If there is ALSO a screen driven element, that’s fine, but this stuff needs to work without a screen.
This stuff is not being done for the sake of UX. It is for saving money at the expense of consumer safety.
Democratic mayoral candidates are engaging in games of one-upmanship by launching conservative-sounding plans to increase law enforcement and force people into addiction treatment.
It’s a city run by multi-millionaire landowners who refuse to support big expensive tax-paid projects that would address the issue of homelessness such as :
A. allowing tall more densely populated housing to lower their property values and “ruin the view…”
…or…
B. high speed rail that could allow for Tokyo-like commuting from long distances to cheaper living areas for a working populace.
Anyone who would support left-leaning legislation has largely been priced out of living in SF for like a decade now.
Now, unless you have $5k to set aside for rent every month, you are living outside the city.
AUSTIN, Texas – Leaked video shows Hood County Constable Scott London, Hood County GOP Chair Steve Biggers and Hood County GOP Chair candidate Greg Harrell attending a meeting held by Abolish Abortion Texas (AATX) where they supported the death penalty for women who seek abortions or use IVF, including pregnant minors. London...
“Both sides” are not equal in every way, but they are in enough in some certain aspects (NOT ALL) that it merits making criticisms and comparisons on at least some aspect of the actions of the Democratic party.
All that being said, you should still support Democrats over Republicans, but we - as voters - should be pointing out at the ballot box - especially in primaries - what sort of behaviors will get you replaced by a better candidate within the party.
I like Phil more than Don Mattrick, but the real honest truth of why this is happening is a combination of factors that has made things terrible finally coming to a head.
The biggest long-term one is the fact that the game industry has leaned for too long on the fact that they would always have a new steady reliable crop of disposable eager young developers and has made being a game developer of any kind a completely untenable long-term career.
We have no “grizzled ancient” masters. At least not in the US or any Western dev house.
It is a completely horrible career. I dreamed as a kid of making games when I grew up. I went to grad-school for it and worked in it for only 5 years before being at a studio that closed only 2 years after we were making $8 million / day at our peak daily revenue.
After that, I found a job that paid 2x with zero crunch at a regular software company that I remained at until literally January this year.
Why would I go back to the far more unstable field of game dev when I have a family to take care of, and a mortgage I need to be able to pay reliably?
At this point, we have only maybe a handful of game dev studio heads that have been involved in designing games for more than a few years.
We have Ken Levine - who has changed studios multiple times. We have Joseph Staten - who did his best to push for the good parts of Halo Infinite. We have Cory Barlog - who made modern God of War and is still working for Sony Santa Monica for now. We have some good long-term indie devs, we have Insomniac and to a lesser extent Respawn (as Apex Legends seems to have become their only focus anymore) as game companies that are doing things pretty well practice-wise… and that’s about it.
Cliff Blezinski quit and got into investing. Neil Druckmann is focused more these days on the Last of Us TV show.
Everything else is either Valve - who doesn’t actually make games anymore - or a garbage company that is absolute shit. Our studios are mostly run by trend-chasing bean-counting executives like Bobby Kotick who never touched game dev from any place except a quarterly earnings perspective and looking at whatever type of game is making the most money that they can try to force their devs to poorly emulate and pivot whatever their current multi-year project is… more toward - regardless of what the game’s original design was.
This means nothing is being spear-headed by anyone who has learned to figure out what they’re doing.
Meanwhile, people like Shigeru Miyamoto has been making games at Nintendo for 4 decades at this point. The top guys at all the major Japanese studios (especially Nintendo) have become the masters when it comes to game design because they’ve literally done it all their lives.
As such, they know how to make fun games, and are a part of games studios now generally run by older people who have been making them for a long part of their lives.
TL;DR - the games industry in the West didn’t give a shit about retaining talent long-term - and as such is run only by bean counting trend-chasing MBAs and staffed by 20-somethings who are learning as they go, burning out, and then pivoting to general software when they decide to start a family.
Slightly off-topic, but I really hate that the Rs are so goddamn horrific that the Ds can just gesture at how bad the Rs are and not actually do much tangibly for their voters compared to… say… like how LBJ did with the passing of the addition of Medicare and Medicaid to Social Security or FDR with the “Rural Electrification Act”… because they know that the alternative for voters not voting for them = enabling of fascists who will speedrun the 4th Reich.
I really wish the left was even half as powerful as what the demagogue-spouting right-wing news stations pretended.
I kinda feel like this, too, but unlike when I first began working in games, I now have a family to take care of.
Also I like the 2x pay, relatively higher job stability, and overall work-life balance with basically zero crunch… so assuming nothing changes in the games industry, it looks like my stepping away from making games starting 11 years ago is still a permanent move.
A president’s budget proposal is seldom passed into law. Instead, it’s an expression of the priorities the president promises to fight for, often coming on the heels of an agenda laid out in the State of the Union address....
…And he won’t do a goddamn thing about it legislation-wise. Hell, he won’t even SAY anything about it.
I really wish we would have elected the guy who - despite what he could or couldn’t have done in office - at least used the bully pulpit to call out the ghouls with dragon-like hoards of wealth that have put us all in a worse place than our parents were 60 years ago.
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper joins the MSNBC panel moments after Mark Robinson wins the state’s GOP primary for governor. Cooper says “Mark Robinson does not reflect North Carolina’s values.”
The neoliberal “we’re like the Republicans but as if it were still 1980” type Dems who have been in charge of the party for decades now should be scared out of their minds and doing whatever they can to get the apathetic would-be voters out and mobilized.
After what the MAGA fascist lunatics did to Paul Pelosi, Tammy Duckworth, and were GOING to do to them in the Capitol were they to have caught any of them, I can’t believe these idiots still think being rich will save them from these actual fascists if they lose in 2024.
Seriously, Jan 6th is going to end up looking instead like a dress rehearsal if Biden, Schumer, Pelosi, and all the other “3rd-way” Ds don’t stop choosing appeasing capital when given the choice of trying to attract new working-class voters or attempting in vain at appeasing Republicans (who will NEVER choose “Republican-LITE” when they can get any actual R on the ticket).
Time is almost out. The increasingly large pile of historical comparisons are apt. The alarms are blaring.
For the love of all that is good, stop with the half-measure “going high when they go low one-time-partial-mail-in-rebate if you apply on our barely functioning website to request to see if you qualify” legislation and just straight up illegally pass an avalanche of populist actions designed to immediately tangibly address the needs of the working class so the Supreme Court is wasting months and political capital for the Rs trying to declare it all as not-legal even though it’s awesome… as soon as possible… or risk the literal end of democracy by allowing Trump the opportunity to disingenuously claim that he would do what only the furthest left Ds might even dare to suggest.
With exception of the Mister, all consoles have either been modded or repaired. Bonus, everything is automated through Home Assistant so it will turn on the TV, switch inputs, and turn on the console, all via voiced controlled.
Is this the non-American cover? As an old Yankee, I may be forgetting a few things, but I remember the corner art (specifically the “only for” bit) looking different.
Students and amateurs want to learn how to do something. Their choices are either - (sometimes) get an EDU address, fill out a form, apply for a discount or free version, see the watermark or lose a ton of functionality, and only see tutorials via classes or other a-la-carte method (how many folks are doing Houdini lessons online out there - probably not many if I had to guess considering Houdini’s price), or start paying $20/month for a program that they someday hope will allow them to earn money - knowing that if they stop paying, they lose access to files… OR…
They can download a program for free, that anyone can add stuff to, with thousands of really well done tutorials online on free places like YouTube, that studios will love because there’s no licensing fee or if there is - it’s only when they are really profitable or whatever.
The more that people use it, the more there are people doing tutorials, expanding functionality, etc.
Blender used to be garbage in like 2010, but now - you’d be an idiot not to grab a copy and teach yourself if you used to regular in apps like 3DS Max, Maya, or other premium closed application now requiring a bunch of DRM installers, license tiers, and subscriptions…
Same goes for Adobe’s stuff. I imagine there are more and more people sick of Creative Cloud’s garbage and are ready to find and learn and contribute to FOSS services… All that needs to happen is critical stupid event by bigwig, and suddenly a mass exodus begins.
US campus protests: Hillary Clinton fails to grasp the moral power of this turning tide (www.middleeasteye.net)
Michigan stands out for its aggressive bird flu response. Will other states follow its lead? (www.statnews.com)
French conservatives move toward far-right alliance (www.dw.com)
The leader of France’s Republicans party has said he would be open to an alliance with Marine Le Pen’s far-right National Rally in snap French elections. Such an alliance would break a decades-old taboo....
Biden campaign hires Republican to pursue 'never Trump' voters [Doina Chiacu and Nandita Bose | Jun 07 24 | Reuters] (www.reuters.com)
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/16384240...
He used to be an anti-abortion Democrat. Now he’s Biden’s secret weapon (www.independent.co.uk)
Donald Trump was convicted on felony charges. Will he go to prison? (www.nbcnews.com)
Former President Donald Trump found guilty on all counts in NY criminal hush money case (www.courier-journal.com)
Louisiana could become first state to require display of Ten Commandments in classrooms | CNN Politics (www.cnn.com)
‘A dying empire led by bad people’: Poll finds young voters despairing over US politics | Semafor (www.semafor.com)
A former Miss America is running for Congress as a pro-choice – and anti-Trump – Republican in North Dakota (www.independent.co.uk)
The Games Industry Needs A Stronger Games Media (www.thegamer.com)
Arrowhead initially planned to make Helldivers 2 in 3 years—instead it took 7 years, 11 months, and 26 days (www.pcgamer.com)
The economy is thriving under Biden. So why don’t Americans believe it? (www.dailykos.com)
A Global Tax on Billionaires? Janet Yellen Says ‘No’ (www.wsj.com)
Treasury secretary came out against the proposed global levy, which proponents say would stop the rich from shifting wealth into countries where they can avoid paying the tax
Nintendo president: “Game development will become even longer, more complex, and more sophisticated” (mynintendonews.com)
Perfect Dark Reboot Is Allegedly In Bad Shape (www.gamespot.com)
I don’t think big companies know how to make a good FPS campaign anymore, let alone hone in on classic deathmatch multiplayer. The last FPS I bought was Half-Life: Alyx four years ago, and the first one to come along and interest me since then was Phantom Fury, but I’m letting that one iron out bugs for a few weeks before I...
Helldivers 2 receives influx of positive reviews after PSN backtrack (www.pcgamesn.com)
It's Time To Stop Giving Xbox Boss Phil Spencer A Pass (kotaku.com)
"PSN isn't supported in my country. What do I do?" Arrowhead CEO: "I don't know" (lemmy.world)
Arrowhead CEO on negative reviews: "I guess it's warranted. Sorry everyone for how this all transpired. I hope we will make it up and regain the trust by providing a continued great game experience." (twitter.com)
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Nintendo Switch 2 report details magnetic Joy-Con, Pro Controller compatibility (www.eurogamer.net)
cross-posted from: sopuli.xyz/post/11963267...
White House calls on pension funds to adopt stronger labor standards (wapo.st)
How Greed Ruined Gaming (www.youtube.com)
To most of us, this is probably just a summary of events over the past year or so. But, it’s good to know that this sort of news is reaching non-gaming channels.
DeSantis signs controversial bill banning civilian boards from investigating police misconduct (www.sun-sentinel.com)
Democrats introduce bill to name Miami prison after Trump (thehill.com)
European car safety body is coming for touchscreens. The European New Car Assessment Programme mandates that key controls need physical buttons or switches (www.politico.eu)
Carmakers are equipping their latest models with fancy touchscreens, but that could cause problems with Europe’s largest car safety authority....
San Francisco Democrats are locked in a race to the right (www.politico.com)
Democratic mayoral candidates are engaging in games of one-upmanship by launching conservative-sounding plans to increase law enforcement and force people into addiction treatment.
LEAKED VIDEO: Texas Republicans Attended Meeting with Group That Suggested Violence and Jail For Women who Have Abortions and Use IVF (www.texasdemocrats.org)
AUSTIN, Texas – Leaked video shows Hood County Constable Scott London, Hood County GOP Chair Steve Biggers and Hood County GOP Chair candidate Greg Harrell attending a meeting held by Abolish Abortion Texas (AATX) where they supported the death penalty for women who seek abortions or use IVF, including pregnant minors. London...
Phil Spencer on what the hell is happening in the games industry (www.polygon.com)
Power-mad modder puts Sonic the Hedgehog at the heart of the most tedious game ever made, so you can speed boost to the end in 3 straight hours instead of 8. (www.pcgamer.com)
The House GOP just gave Biden’s campaign a huge gift: Roughly 80 percent of House Republicans just lined up behind a plan to cut Social Security and ban all abortions (www.vox.com)
Donald Trump would be on track to win a historic landslide in November — if so many US voters didn’t find him personally repugnant....
How did Canada end up with worse air quality than the US? (www.theguardian.com)
Year of devastating wildfires meant Canadians were breathing worse air than southern neighbours for first time ever...
'You will not enjoy videogames anymore if you work in a big game studio:' New Blood's boss weighs in on what sets it apart amid an industry crisis (www.pcgamer.com)
Biden’s populist budget marks the overdue end of trickle-down economics (thehill.com)
A president’s budget proposal is seldom passed into law. Instead, it’s an expression of the priorities the president promises to fight for, often coming on the heels of an agenda laid out in the State of the Union address....
Voters blame businesses more than Biden for sticky inflation (www.cnbc.com)
North Carolina GOP nominates Holocaust-denying, gay-bashing, extreme anti-abortion radical for Governor (www.msnbc.com)
North Carolina Governor Roy Cooper joins the MSNBC panel moments after Mark Robinson wins the state’s GOP primary for governor. Cooper says “Mark Robinson does not reflect North Carolina’s values.”
Finished Rewiring, Very Happy With The Results (i.imgur.com)
With exception of the Mister, all consoles have either been modded or repaired. Bonus, everything is automated through Home Assistant so it will turn on the TV, switch inputs, and turn on the console, all via voiced controlled.
Waluigi Creator Reveals Scrapped Design for 'Walpeach' in Mario Power Tennis (www.ign.com)
Super Metroid (assets1.ignimgs.com)
It’s being a couple of weeks since I’ve finished this game and it does not get out of my head....
Unity is eliminating 265 jobs and terminating Weta FX partnership (www.gamedeveloper.com)